Cluster Bombs - Laos 50 years on - Tonight at 7 pm - Portland Oregon

US dropped the first cluster bombs this country. The innocent civilians of Laos continue to be victims of these bombs.

Please join me for an evening of conversation and sharing of experiences on Thursday August
21. 7 to 9 PM

First United Methodist Church of Portland
1838 SW Jefferson St
Portland, OR 97201

August 14, 2014
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PRESS RELEASE
LYNN BRADACH
, the Inter
national Peace Advocate, is hold
ing an informational event next
Thursday, August 21, 2014, in Portland,Oregon, following her recent attendance in Laos at a cluster bomb conference, observing the 50th
anniversary of secret U.S. bombing and cluster bombing that Country.

Lynn's son Marine Corporal Travis Bradach-Nall, who graduated from Grant High School in 2000,
was killed by an exploding U.S. cluster bomb in Karbala, Iraq, on July 2, 2003. Lynn
has been campaigning over the last 11 years to end U.S. production, sale and deployment of landmines and cluster munitions.

First United
Methodist Church of Portland
1838 SW Jefferson St
Portland, OR 97201
Here is Lynn's message and invitation, with
the Handicap International weblinks."

Dear Family and Friends:

re-posting from Lynn Bradach's email

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I have just returned from Laos. This was not a pleasure trip, but it was a rewarding trip.
I'm hoping that my visit and your help can make a difference to the people of this country
It has been fifty years since the "Secret War" and fifty years since the